Hey don't put all of us in one bucket.

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

> PC gamers are the worst cause they followed some redit guide to improve
> the network card performance. Just burn their house down and be done with it
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 8:44 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yes, move closer to the server.  Either that or they can figure out how
>> to break physics.  It takes time to get from one point to another.
>>
>> "Bunch of IP" is probably the 15 other players in his 16 player game.  If
>> it's AWS they're probably masquerading it for obvious security reasons.
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Move closer to the server?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I assume you don’t mean if the server is in Virginia, tell the customer
>>> to move to Virginia?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> FWIW, I torched the customer’s traffic trying to determine where the
>>> server was, and saw a bunch of IP addresses communicating with his gaming
>>> PC.  I took the one with the most traffic, and ping time to it was around
>>> 10 ms, but rDNS was blahblahblah.awsglobalaccelerator.com I think.  So
>>> AWS routes the traffic across a private network supposedly to improve
>>> performance?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
>>> *Sent:* Saturday, February 1, 2025 4:39 PM
>>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ping time reported in game
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There's no one ping to rule them all, but generally it's the latency of
>>> a game packet from gamer to host and back.  It could be a dedicated server
>>> or a peer to peer game.  The latter is more common (cheap bastards).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The #1 thing you can do to reduce latency is move closer to the server.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Since they're playing with someone else, I'm betting it has something to
>>> do with turnaround time with the gamer they're playing with?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bp
>>>
>>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>>
>>> On 2/1/2025 12:31 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone here speak gamer?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What is the ping time displayed in some games?  Someone will tell me
>>> it’s like 200 ms, but speedtest.net reports 15, and a command line ping
>>> reports 13 min, 15 avg, 20 max.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don’t know what to do with the numbers they quote from the game, they
>>> don’t correlate to anything I can measure.
>>>
>>>
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